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The Time of Noah. Photo courtesy of Joe More
Need to know: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Life in a fishbowl: Survey gives voice to pastors’ spouses
The vast majority of U.S. Protestant pastors’ spouses have good things to say about being married to a pastor, but many also report feeling isolated and worrying about their finances.
Florida now understands the Noah story
“Ever since Irma announced that she was going to pay Florida a visit, I’ve been experiencing what it must have been like to be on the ark — minus the animals, of course,” writes RNS columnist Jeffrey Salkin.
Catholic leaders decry Dems’ questioning of judicial pick
Democrats focused on whether Amy Coney Barrett's personal views would override her legal judgment, especially with respect to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
RNS wins awards for news, analysis, commentary and photography
Religion News Service received recognition for its work at this year’s Religion News Association conference in Nashville.
Jewish Council seeks to move Nazi rally in Gothenburg
Swedish police are allowing the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement to march near a synagogue on Yom Kippur.
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Faith groups provide the bulk of disaster recovery, in coordination with FEMA
(USA Today) — If you donate bottles of water, diapers, clothing or any other materials to hurricane victims in Texas or Florida, your donation will likely pass through the hands of the Seventh-day Adventists before it gets to a storm victim.
Pope asks ‘pro-life’ Trump to rethink young migrant decision
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis is urging President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation, saying anyone who calls himself "pro-life" should keep families together.
Paula White: ‘Our president is not a racist’
President Trump is “1,000 percent” not racist and “100 percent” Christian, his most prominent spiritual adviser told religion reporters in Nashville.
More views from RNS
Is America losing its religion of football?
Critics and defenders of the sport and business of football, from the grade school level to the National Football League’s market-religious status, agreed that science and media interests have converged to appeal to the public conscience.
Stop the presses! There’s a next generation for mainline Protestantism
White millennials find mainline Protestantism more to their liking than Catholicism or evangelicalism, writes Mark Silk.
Choosing ethical medical treatments as the options narrow
Jeffrey Weiss is “a bit worse from glioblastoma than I was a month or so ago.” Should he feel like any experiment is good enough for him?
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Bonus tracks
- Australian ad promotes lamb as fit for the gods, offending some Hindus
- Advocates challenging Missouri’s abortion law have an unexpected new ally: The Satanic Temple
- Alabama senate candidate repeatedly appeared on radio with pastor who preaches penalty for homosexuality is death
- First Harvey, then Irma: Is there enough help to go around?
- Lutheran volunteers scrub and sweep their way to fellowship with Muslim coffee shop owner
